As Strategic Business Counsel

• Led the due diligence and legal strategy for the acquisition of a publicly traded company in furtherance of a proposed $210 million credit facility and potential future leveraged buyout and take-private transaction valued at approximately $500 million

• Directed complex international due diligence investigations and led anti-money laundering compliance for a multi-national consulting firm

• Facilitated the asset sale of a technology financial management consulting firm for six times annual revenue; served as the company’s fractional general counsel for five years

• Lead transactional attorney for an international commodity trading firm that sourced and supplied personal protective equipment during the pandemic

• Discovered and stopped a $50 million commodities transaction after conducting due diligence on the seller shortly before the buyer wired funds to secure the product

 

As Trial and White Collar Defense Attorney

• Lead counsel in an $180 million joint venture fiduciary duty, non-compete violation, and valuation dispute involving fiber-broadband assets

• Lead counsel in a shareholder control dispute involving an emerging growth healthcare data analytics company

• Obtained a unanimous defense award in a multi-million dollar fraud and breach of fiduciary duty arbitration filed against a closely held company’s former general counsel

• Obtained a multi-million-dollar settlement in a shareholder dispute involving alleged financial impropriety and misappropriation of intellectual property

• Negotiated resolution of multi-million-dollar shareholder litigation in Delaware Chancery Court between joint venture partners in a technology start-up involving alleged claims of trade secret misappropriation, breaches of contract and fiduciary duty, and fraud

• Lead trial counsel for minority shareholders in litigation filed against a closely held company and its board of directors involving the alleged intentional devaluation of company shares and a punitive forced buy-out at below fair value

• Obtained dismissal of alleged fraud and contract claims filed against a corporation’s CEO arising from a $160 million international financial transaction

• Defended a closely held corporation and its CEO in an SEC investigation concerning alleged misconduct by a purported joint venture partner

• Defended the CEO of a publicly traded company in a federal criminal securities and money laundering case alleging a $240 million fraud conspiracy

• Directed litigation related to a $75-million fraud perpetrated on the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, resulting in more than $12 million (of approximately $20 million in remaining unrecovered funds) being returned to the State of Ohio in a 10-month period